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Ein starkes Team

1994 · 1 season

A steady, talky procedural where the case of the week shares screen time with the team's bickering and slow-burning personal lives.

Created by
Krystian Martinek
Genres
Drama, Crime
Starring
Florian Martens, Tayfun Bademsoy, Jaecki Schwarz
Overview
The unlikely police pair Verena Berthold and Otto Garber are part of a special task force investigating organized crime in Berlin. He comes from the east, she from the west of Berlin. He's a redneck, she's from a better background. This causes conflict. Over time, things start to sizzle between the two. Their team includes the agile German-Turkish Yücsel and the sluggish Georg, who, like Verena and Otto, are constantly bickering. The department manager is Lothar Reddemann. Sputnik is a former colleague of Otto's from the People's Police and is constantly coming up with new business ideas for stores and pubs where the team meets.

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Created by
Krystian Martinek
Genres
Drama, Crime
Starring
Florian Martens, Tayfun Bademsoy, Jaecki Schwarz
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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • crime
  • justice
  • work
  • loyalty
  • identity
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • procedural
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
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Action4
Horror2
Humour4
Realism7
Romance3
Tension5
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
drama, crime
Created by
Krystian Martinek
Starring
Florian Martens, Tayfun Bademsoy, Jaecki Schwarz, Maja Maranow, Arnfried Lerche, Heino Ferch, Sebastian Koch, Traugott Buhre
Length
1 seasons, 105 episodes, 90 min each
Network
ZDF
Country
Germany
Languages
German

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